Researchers in academia when reading the paper would view their own papers or courses to keep the papers in their field updates, or literature survey for a new field. Researchers may take hundreds of hours reading the papers every year. Learn to effectively read a paper is very important, but very few people have way we students too.
Therefore, a lot of students have just started to learn how to read through trial and error. Students put in a lot of wasted time in the process, and is often pushed to the blind. So small series to introduce a method called "three-step process."
The key three-step method is that you should look at the paper three times, rather than the beginning all the way to the end. Each time a particular objective and based on one basis, for the first time so you have a rough idea of this paper. The second allows you to grasp the contents of the article are not the details. Third assist you in-depth understanding of the paper.
How practical and effective reading research papers?
The first pass is a quick scan, to focus on the paper. This process takes 5-10 minutes by the following steps:
1 read the titles, abstracts and presentations. 2 Read the chapter and sub-chapter titles, but ignores everything else. 3 Read the conclusions, references.
At the end of the first, you should be able to answer four questions:
1 What kind of article? 2 which is related to what other papers? 3 inside the body of the assumption seems to work? 4 essays okay?
After obtaining this information, you can choose to read or not read. This may be because you are not interested in newspapers, or you not know enough about this area, or the author makes an invalid assumption. When you write papers, attention coherent chapters and sub-section titles, write concise and comprehensive summary.
Second read the article, but ignore the details. When you read the key points down, or to comment in the margin, there are pictures carefully look at the picture, pay special attention to the chart, the chart can make meaningful conclusions. The second takes an hour. After this process, you should be able to master the basic content of the paper. You should be able to summarize the main subject. Sometimes, even in the end, you can not understand the paper, this may be because the topic is important is new to you, there are not familiar with the term makes it difficult to understand.
The third reading to understand the full paper, the third time trying to understand the paper again, that is to say, authors and do the same assumptions, re-create the paper. By comparison with the actual paper, you can easily identify innovations paper, but also its shortcomings and hidden assumptions. This process requires great attention to detail. Also, you should think about how you yourself would do. So they have a keen insight.
Finally, at the time of writing papers, literature on the subject or do not know how choices students can refer to this three-step process should be able to quickly solve the problem.
Author: papertime